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Nevilledog

(51,200 posts)
Tue Apr 5, 2022, 12:26 PM Apr 2022

Trump aide seeking NH House seat voted in 2 states in 2016





https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-chris-christie-new-jersey-new-hampshire-congress-734e2b2722c66883eab85bfca96fbc8c


CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A former Trump administration official now running for Congress in New Hampshire voted twice during the 2016 primary election season, potentially violating federal voting law and leaving him at odds with the Republican Party’s intense focus on “election integrity.”

Matt Mowers, a leading Republican primary candidate looking to unseat Democratic Rep. Chris Pappas, cast an absentee ballot in New Hampshire’s 2016 presidential primary, voting records show. At the time, Mowers served as the director of former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s presidential campaign in the pivotal early voting state.

Four months later, after Christie’s bid fizzled, Mowers cast another ballot in New Jersey’s Republican presidential primary, using his parents’ address to re-register in his home state, documents The Associated Press obtained through a public records request show.

Legal experts say Mowers’ actions could violate a federal law that prohibits “voting more than once” in “any general, special, or primary election.” That includes casting a ballot in separate jurisdictions “for an election to the same candidacy or office.” It also puts Mowers, who was a senior adviser in Donald Trump’s administration and later held a State Department post, in an awkward spot at a time when much of his party has embraced the former president’s lies about a stolen 2020 election and has pushed for restrictive new election laws.

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Trump aide seeking NH House seat voted in 2 states in 2016 (Original Post) Nevilledog Apr 2022 OP
NH "hosts" a Republican "taxi squad" Mopar151 Apr 2022 #1
IOKIYAR, silly! nt Atticus Apr 2022 #2

Mopar151

(9,998 posts)
1. NH "hosts" a Republican "taxi squad"
Tue Apr 5, 2022, 12:39 PM
Apr 2022

And has for decades. The Bossie family, the Sunnunu's, and many others, hole up hereabouts, plotting their comeback for the next "First in the Nation" primary.

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